(For those who don’t know, ‘blep’ is when critters, especially cats, leave their tongue hanging out)

Image description: three pictures of a black and white cat with her tongue sticking out. In two of them, the tongue is out like half an inch. The cat is laying in the lap of someone (me / Silver) wearing pajamas decorated with sock monkeys.

I’m interviewed and talk a lot about how ADHD makes life hard and how I deal with it, plus a giveaway for a copy of The Creatives Low-Energy Planner

]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/yay/feed/02351I’ve started a podcast!http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/ive-started-a-podcast/
http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/ive-started-a-podcast/#respondSun, 14 Jan 2018 00:52:58 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2349Continue reading "I’ve started a podcast!"]]>If you follow me on twitter or Facebook you’ve already seen me talking (incessantly, on Twitter) about this, but here’s an official announcement: I’ve started producing a podcast. I’m writing, voicing, and editing it, and I’m open to suggestions.

It’s called A Heroic Moment and it’s a short (about five minutes) podcast set at the radio station of a school for heroes. I’m going to try to be just as diverse as I can – there are already scripts written involving trans, fat, deaf, and wheelchair-using heroes. And, yes, I’ll be providing transcripts.

You can listen and comment at http://aheroicmoment.libsyn.com and it should show up in Itunes, Google Play, and Spotify in the next couple of days if it hasn’t already.

]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/ive-started-a-podcast/feed/02349Cat pic of the dayhttp://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/cat-pic-of-the-dap/
http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/cat-pic-of-the-dap/#respondSat, 13 Jan 2018 18:15:29 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/cat-pic-of-the-dap/This is my life, y’all. She’s going to be so sad when my job starts and I’m only home on the weekends again.
]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/cat-pic-of-the-dap/feed/02347It’s done!http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/its-done/
http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/its-done/#respondTue, 09 Jan 2018 02:40:46 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2341I’ve finished re-writing the first White Knight story! I need to proofread it and if possible get it beta-read, then make an illustration or two for it, but it’s done!
]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2018/01/its-done/feed/02341The listing for the Creatives Low-Energy Planner is up!http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/the-listing-for-the-creatives-low-energy-planner-is-up/
http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/the-listing-for-the-creatives-low-energy-planner-is-up/#respondSun, 31 Dec 2017 00:50:47 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2334Etsy listing

I’ll be doing some colored versions (monochrome and multi-colored) soon, but it’s up! Before the new year even!

]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/the-listing-for-the-creatives-low-energy-planner-is-up/feed/02334The Creatives Low-Energy Planner (free download)http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/the-creatives-low-energy-planner-free-download/
http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/the-creatives-low-energy-planner-free-download/#respondTue, 12 Dec 2017 00:17:25 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2251Continue reading "The Creatives Low-Energy Planner (free download)"]]>I started listening to Productivity Alchemy, a podcast about productivity methods, planners, and what works and doesn’t work for different people. (It’s produced by Kevin Sonney, with help from his wife, Ursula Vernon, who are two of my favorite people. And Kevin has a very nice voice)

This inspired me to create a planner for myself that would take into account my executive dysfunction and general low energy. And I kept meaning to do a post about it, so here it is.

It’s gone through a few modifications and some of the pictures will be old versions, but it’s basically the same.

You can download a basic version of the planner. It’s set up as half-pages, with one week and the month end and month start pages, and licensed under the Creative Commons. You can share and modify it, but don’t sell it.

ETA: The file above is an older version. I’ve changed it slightly to make it a bit sleeker. 2018 versions, in three colors, are on my Etsy store

The ideas

First of all, when I make a list of things to do I tend to overestimate what I can get done and so most of the list is never finished. I prevented this by only giving myself four spaces everyday.

The basic planner spread for the weekdays.

There’s space on the weekend pages for extra accompishments and I can always add stuff in the margins.

Because I also have problems with depression and spending all my energy trying to get the ‘important’ stuff done and so not having any left for fun stuff for me, I added a wrap-up section for each day.

Challenge today: What was hard today? What got in the way? What could I do differently?

Created today: I’m a creative person and I want to express that somehow everyday. Even if it’s just a doodle or coining one word for one of my conlangs. Also a place for how many words or pages I wrote.

Did for myself: Self-care sort of stuff. Can be anything from went out to eat to snuggled a cat.

You probably noticed the circles. That ties into the low-energy part. Some days, no matter what I planned, something gets in the way and the circles are for that. The idea is to put a sticker there – stickers are vital to the planner – that makes it clear that nothing else has to get done that day.

Free day: planned break days

SNAFU day: Shit went wrong. Could be sickness, could be car trouble, could be dozens of things.

Recovery day: I overdid it the previous days and need to rest. Or I woke up with no energy and f— it, I’m doing nothing today.

I put stickers all over the pages. They reinforce that YAY! I got stuff done and that I tried my best everyday. Do not underestimate the motivating effect of stickers.

Additionally at the month break, or rather, every four weeks, there’s a monthly wrap-up and monthly planning spread. I go back through the past month and note accomplishments and transfer various ideas I wrote down to one of the project categories.

Month end and Month planning for September and October. Good luck deciphering my handwriting. September was a good month.

Every month I re-evalute the Current Projects and Future Projects list. Sometimes current projects get moved to future projects. Sometimes stuff drops off entirely. It’s about being realistic.

I’m not always great about actually using it – there are a lot of blank pages – but it helps keep me on track and able to remember that I actually did get stuff done.

How about some more pictures?

Blank weekend spread, with plenty of room for notes from the whole week and extra accomplishments.Got a bunch extra done that Saturday and lots of happy stuff. Didn’t get everything done on Sunday.A bunch of notes that should have gotten transferred to the month start projects list. Sunday was both a free day and a recovery day, cuz I did a lot that Saturday.Things didn’t go as planned on that Weekend, but that’s okay!Lots of happy stuff that Friday. Gotta celebrate even the small accomplishments.A pretty good week, but need to use Wednesday as a recovery day.Even if I didn’t do much, stickers are important to keep spirits up!

One of the fun but sometimes frustrating things about translating is that you keep finding situations where what you did before doesn’t work. This is one of them. In previous sentences zɯ got the accusative case marker, but it could be replaced by the answer. So, new rule was noted: if zɯ can’t be replaced by an object answering the question, it’s unmarked.

Lexeme:

sɯa

Gloss:

world, planet

Combination Form:

sɯ

Stress:

IPA:

Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:

Singular:

sɯa

–

sɯa

sɯa

Paucal:

soosɯ

soosɯ

ˈsɜːʔ.zɯ

soo’zɯ

Plural:

sɯasɯ

sɯasɯ

sɯɜ.ˈzɯ

sɯozɯ

Example Usage:

suizɯasɯn sychiyvmowza zɯ

sɯa<uiz>ɯa-sɯn

sy<chi-yv>mow-za (stem: syza)

zɯ

planet<PEJ>planet-ACC

origin<1s.SBJ-3s.POBJ>you-origin

what

What damn planet are you from?

Phonetic:

suisɯazɯŋ

sijiyvmoza

zɯ

IPA:

sʊy.ˈsɯa.zɯŋ

sy.ˈdʒɪiv.ɱɜ.ˌza

zɯ

PEJ = pejorative

Singular, Paucal, and Plural

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]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-2017-nyjichxn-6/feed/02225Lexember check-inhttp://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-check-in/
http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-check-in/#respondSat, 09 Dec 2017 06:37:52 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2222Continue reading "Lexember check-in"]]>I’ve come up with a bunch of words for Nyjichxn because I was on a roll, but I have to do all the fiddly bits before they’re ready to share. It won’t be tomorrow, because I’m going to a thing. Probably won’t be Sunday because I’m going to prune the heck outta the tomatoes and do other gardening crap. But those eight words are coming soon.
]]>http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-check-in/feed/02222Lexember 2017 – Ie, Part 1http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-2017-ie-part-1/
http://www.silversspace.com/2017/12/lexember-2017-ie-part-1/#respondWed, 06 Dec 2017 03:30:29 +0000http://www.silversspace.com/?p=2216Continue reading "Lexember 2017 – Ie, Part 1"]]>Ie was supposed to just be a naming language for use in my Shard-verse stories, but me being me, it’s grown a bit. I’m trying to restrain myself because I don’t need another big project AND I still can’t actually make names in it.

Since it’s a lot simpler than Ŋyjichɯn, being an isolating language, I’ll be doing a bunch at a time. I’ll give the IPA in parentheses.